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WESTCHESTER TAX WAR; Assessors Face Hundreds of Indignant Taxpayers and Receive a Volley of Protests. GOULDS DO NOT APPEAR Mount Pleasant Board Hears Complaints of the Rockefellers, and Counsel Charges Discrimination Against His Clients Because They Are Rich Men.

Westchester County's tax war, which has so far been carried on chiefly in the newspapers, resulted in an open engagement yesterday. The Boards of Assessors which had tripled estimates of the value of real property and multiplied personally assessments by five or six faced hundreds of indignant taxpayers and received an unprecedented volley of protests against their action.

August 18, 1897

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